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Ensuring Availability. Sustaining Operational Readiness.

Modern systems are becoming increasingly complex, presenting new challenges to users when it comes to maintaining long-term operational readiness. Greater levels of system integration, increased use of electronics and software, and long service lives make it clear that experience and craftsmanship alone are no longer enough.

What matters is long-term operational readiness within an integrated system environment across the entire capability chain. VINCORION Lifecycle Support combines holistic system expertise, structured processes, and technical know-how to ensure availability and operational readiness for decades.

Excerpt from Our Service Portfolio: Lifecycle Support

Risk Analysis

Maintenance and Repair Concept

Configuration Management

Special Test Equipment

Sample Testing

Product Monitoring

Obsolescence Management

Update & Upgrade

Our Lifecycle Support Capabilities

Condition Assessment

Condition analysis supporting part reproduction and remanufacturing

Finishing

Painting and parts cleaning, including large-scale components

Integration

Platform-specific assembly and system integration for repair, modification, and retrofit

Fault Detection

Development of test and inspection systems for mechatronic and power electronic systems

Comprehensive Lifecycle Support for Maximum NH90 Fleet Operational Readiness

The NH90 military helicopter equipped with a rescue hoist is deployed across Europe, particularly for the tactical transportation of personnel and equipment, medical evacuation from combat zones (MedEvac), and search and rescue missions (SAR).

VINCORION manages the lifecycle of more than 500 rescue hoists in the NH90 fleet – from in-field product monitoring and findings-based maintenance to the provision of special-to-type test equipment (STTE) and ground support equipment (GSE). This includes structured knowledge exchange with hoist operators, detailed analysis of previously unknown failure patterns, and systematic obsolescence management.

Operational experience, such as from the 2021 flood response in the Ahr Valley, drives the continuous development of the product. At the end of 2025, VINCORION delivered the first sixth-generation NH90 rescue hoist (G6 standard) to operators.

With the supplementary HMU portable^V special-to-type test equipment (SRHTS), the rescue hoist can now be operated, maintained, and tested independently of the helicopter – even in mobile deployment scenarios. Both developments further maximize the availability of the NH90 fleet’s rescue hoists and reduce downtime.